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Lot Essay
The design of the lotus-seed pod on the current dish appears to be a popular motif in the enamellers' repertoire of this period. A ritual disc with a Xuande mark, from the collection of Sir Percival and Lady David, bears this design as the main decorative motif and shares the same colour scheme with the medallion on the present lot. The disc is illustrated by H. Garner, Chinese and Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, London, 1962, pl. 10A. Compare also the medallion on a Jingtai-marked dish from the early 15th century, illustrated by H. Brinker and A. Lutz, op. cit., pl. 10 and 10a.
The lotus-pod also appears to be a popular ceramic decorative motif of the early Ming period, cf. decorating the interior medallion of an underglaze-blue dish on a Xuande-marked dish, illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Hsuan-te Ware I, p. 116, no. 28; and the interior of an underglazed-blue bowl illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 42.
Compare also the typical pointed floral and foliage petals rendered on cloisonné ware of the early 15th century, such as the bowl dated to Yongle/Xuande period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong , 2 November 1999, lot 798, and the bottle vase in the British Museum, included in the exhibition, Riben-Zhongguo Meishu Mingpin Zhan, Tokyo National Museum, 1987, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 158, no. 121.
A similar example from the Pierre Uldry Collection, also with an incised Jingtai mark and dated to the fifteenth century, is illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 10. Compare also the example sold at Sotheby's London, 14 July 1981, lot 12.
The lotus-pod also appears to be a popular ceramic decorative motif of the early Ming period, cf. decorating the interior medallion of an underglaze-blue dish on a Xuande-marked dish, illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Hsuan-te Ware I, p. 116, no. 28; and the interior of an underglazed-blue bowl illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 42.
Compare also the typical pointed floral and foliage petals rendered on cloisonné ware of the early 15th century, such as the bowl dated to Yongle/Xuande period, sold at Christie's Hong Kong , 2 November 1999, lot 798, and the bottle vase in the British Museum, included in the exhibition, Riben-Zhongguo Meishu Mingpin Zhan, Tokyo National Museum, 1987, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 158, no. 121.
A similar example from the Pierre Uldry Collection, also with an incised Jingtai mark and dated to the fifteenth century, is illustrated in Chinese Cloisonné: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Asia Society Galleries, New York, 1989, no. 10. Compare also the example sold at Sotheby's London, 14 July 1981, lot 12.